Regulations and Procedures
Individual Studio Study and Performance-Related Policies
Individual Studio Study and Coaching
The Jacobs School of Music is committed to providing students with the highest quality performance and composition instruction from world-renowned residential faculty. To that end:
- Studio instruction shall be delivered in individual lessons, unless other arrangements are made with the Associate Dean for Instruction.
- All music majors and concentrations will study with faculty members.
- Lessons and vocal coachings will be a minimum of 50 minutes per week.
- Each student (major and concentration) enrolled in performance or composition study in a private lesson setting in a fall or spring semester will receive a minimum of fourteen face-to-face (in person, not online) lessons per semester given by the faculty member who is the teacher of record.
- Each student (major and concentration) enrolled in performance or composition study in a private lesson setting in the summer will receive a minimum of eight face-to-face (in person, not online) lessons given by the faculty member who is the teacher of record.
- Students enrolled in chamber music will receive seven face-to-face (in person, not online) coachings of at least 50 minutes each with the faculty member(s) assigned and will complete an approved public performance.
- Students enrolled in vocal coaching in a fall or spring semester will meet face-to-face (in person, not online) with the teacher of record a minimum of seven times if enrolled for one credit hour or a minimum of fourteen times if enrolled for two credit hours. Students enrolled in one credit hour of vocal coaching in the summer will receive a minimum of four face-to-face (in person, not online) coachings with the teacher of record. Students enrolled in two credit hours of vocal coaching in the summer with receive a minimum of eight face-to-face (in person, not online) coachings with the teacher of record.
- The lessons, chamber music coachings, and vocal coachings shall be distributed across the semester or summer term in a relatively equal way.
- A student enrolled in secondary lessons in a fall or spring semester will receive fourteen face-to-face (in person, not online) lessons per semester with the instructor assigned to the students at the beginning of the semester.
- A student enrolled in secondary lessons in the summer will receive a minimum of eight face-to-face (in person, not online) lessons with the instructor assigned to the student at the beginning of the summer term.
- In rare situations of strategic importance to the school, exceptions to this policy for a limited period can occur if approved in writing by the dean.